Be the Bookwork

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See list bibliography list below.

Austin Kleon recommends we should always be reading. He describes the library as a magical place. I particularly like it when he said, "It's not the book you start with, it's the book that book leads you too." I do that a lot of the time when I am surfing Youtube. I start out watching a documentary about Popcorn Sutton and end up learning how to salt, cure and smoke whole pigs in country shed. 

Kleon wants you to pay attention to the bibliography sections of books. And he promotes the building your own personal library, even if you don't plan on reading them anytime in the near future. I like this advice. I've always wanted to have a room full of books. Something reflective of what in my brain or what I would like to have in my brain. 

The picture of ten books you see above are books I checked out of the Parkland Library that I would like to read. I chose books based on my research for Art Chantry. I started out looking for books on people he liked and then I used a resource a website called YASIV recommended by the resource librarian. I found all the books in the Parkland Library.

List of books I checked out from the Parkland Library.

1. Chantry, Art, and Monica Rene Rochester. Art Chantry Speaks: a Heretic’s History of 20th Century Graphic Design. Feral House, 2015.
2. Heller, Steven, and Gail Anderson. The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters. Laurence King Publishing, 2016.
3. Draplin, Aaron James. Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything. Abrams, 2016. 
4. Lasky, Julie, and Art Chantry. Some People Can’t Surf: Art Chantry. Chronicle, 2001.
5. McNeil, Paul. The Visual History of Type. Laurence King Publishing, 2017
6. Heller, Steven, and Elaine Lustig Cohen. Born Modern: the Life and Design of Alvin Lustig. Chronicle Books, 2010.
7. Gibbs, David. The Compendium: Thoughts, Essays and Work. Phaidon, 1993. 
8. Schick, Ron, et al. Norman Rockwell, behind the Camera: Foreword by John Rockwell, Introduction by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
9. Ghez, Didier, and Pete Docter. The Hidden Art of Disney’s Golden Age: the 1930s. Chronicle Books, 2015
10. Lupton, Ellen. Thinking with Type: a Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students. Princeton Architectural, 2010
    Books I'd like to have in my "unread library."


    Kleon also provides a list of recommended reading. 


    I have chosen to start with Lynda Barry's, What it Is.




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